Comments on: New Thrillist piece: 15 Great American Action Movieshttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/
The Life and Art of VernThu, 22 Feb 2018 03:42:13 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: geoffreyjarhttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3374565
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:16:26 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374565Stern: You never played MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2? A Servbot can fuck you up royally!

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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:10:34 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374564Looks like we have a fight brewing between Hallsy and a pink robot.
]]>By: thepinkservbothttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3374562
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:15:50 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374562HARD TARGET is fucking excellent and I will bareknuckle box anyone who says otherwise.
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Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:32:18 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374236MIXALOT, I must have seen CURE the week before you, in the first part of it’s two week run, and there were exactly three people in my screening. I’m sure they were all in the cinema next door, being *entertained* by the fucking MUMMY.
]]>By: 1-900-MIXALOThttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3374217
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:34:15 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374217geoffreyjar – here in Australia i caught it in its second and final week of release, at my local (major city) theatre chain, in an otherwise empty screening, where it was playing for one session a day at 9:15am. to say that i had mixed feelings about the experience would be putting it mildly.
]]>By: geoffreyjarhttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3374215
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:13:59 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374215Oh god I did not see the climax of WELLNESS coming. It spends the whole time being one of those ‘respectable’ and ‘adult’ horror movies (snobs call them thrillers to feel good about themselves) and then suddenly it becomes the exact opposite type of horror movie. Best of all it totally works and both the adult section and ‘trashy'(?) sections are excellent. What an absolutely fantastic movie which AGAIN I hate myself for listening to the ton of negative reviews calling it boring instead of listening to my heart and past enjoyment of Verbinski’s films. I hope with the double-whammy of LONE RANGER being regarded as one of the biggest bombs in history and WELLNESS greatly under-performing (at least here in America, I know nothing of it’s international success) Verbinski is able bounce back. I’d hate to see him have to crawl back to the PIRATES series or start taking ‘paycheque’/jobber movies. I’d really hate to lose his unique cinematic voice, even if it is excessive and overlong (though in my opinion never boring).
]]>By: 1-900-MIXALOThttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3374211
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:10:11 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374211Mastor Troy – if that shit were to ever go down you could count me all the way in. CURE is one of my favourite movies of the year so far. i can’t mention which character i would dress as without spoiling the off-the-rails final 25 minutes of the film but for those who have seen it you probably know who i’m talking about. contemporary, medium-budgeted studio weirdness doesn’t get much better in my opinion. here’s hoping it develops a well deserved cult following and some serious critical reassessment before some awful, RiffTrax-like fate befalls it.
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Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:31:48 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374210[visual-parse url=”https://plus.google.com/100416510870030620149/posts/6XjLQeKjemH”]

And as far as my understanding of a Cult Film goes, if A CURE FOR WELLNESS caught on and had midnight screenings and everyone came in costume, doped up on prescription drugs looking like this, COUNT ME IN FELLAS! I am so there!

Good question Sternshein, and as a case in point, I bought the dvd of A CURE FOR WELLNESS just today, and there on the cover it assumes future cult status for itself. I liked the film a lot when I saw it at the cinema, don’t know anyone besides some of you guys who said they’ve seen it, and also liked it.

I always think of cult films as ones that attract a group of people to watch the film regularly together. Like for 15 years straight a Hoyts cinema in the city had midnight screenings every Friday night of THE BLUES BROTHERS and ROCKY HORROR. Each respective group would turn out, some in costume, and have a blast doing the dance routines to Shake A Tail Feather etc. I never went to either one, though I regret not doing TBB.

“Cult film” is a very broad term, and could be applied to anything on the internet these days, since we’re all drawn to different movies for different reasons. You could easily say David Lynch is still a cult film director, despite the mainstream popularity of Twin Peaks old and new, because most of those norms wouldn’t know what to do with a LOST HIGHWAY or an ERASERHEAD, but they do it for me.

]]>By: Sternsheinhttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3374204
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 04:11:15 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3374204Why is it any time a genre picture has a little popularity but it’s not a massive hit they call it a cult classic but you almost never hear that phrase in relation to dramas? I’m tired of the phrase because it is starting to seem almost dismissive to the quality of the film.
]]>By: caruso_stalker217http://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3373866
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 21:21:33 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373866Very happy to see LETHAL WEAPON 2 represented on this list. THE GODFATHER PART II of buddy cop movies.
]]>By: Broddiehttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3373846
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 06:13:45 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373846I would’ve switched ROAD HOUSE with POINT BREAK because I felt T2 is already a great example of extreme 90s Americana. ROAD HOUSE showcases America’s diversity through an 80s lens all in one movie. Solid piece nonetheless.
]]>By: Jek Porkinshttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3373844
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 04:01:06 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373844Just read your piece Vern. Good job. Thoughtful, vivid.

Also, this line from #1 gave me chills:
“It also kicked off the great tradition of the Die-Hard-on-a-blank, some of them (Under Siege, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Speed) minor classics in their own right.”
Because I watched those three movies, in that order, TODAY. Heh.

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Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:56:27 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373834Hallsy, I’d obviously place Time cop and Hard Target higher on the list but I don’t think mine would be that much different so we’re really pretty much on the same page.
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Fri, 07 Jul 2017 19:55:16 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373831That is a good list, Hallsy. Now I’m even more confused by your hatred of HARD TARGET. Have you seen it recently? My opinion on it has really changed over time.
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Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:55:06 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373828The ones I’ve seen from Best to Worst:
Bloodsport
No Retreat No Surrender
Sudden Death
Day of Reckoning
Lionheart
Kickboxer
Kickboxer The Next Generation
Regeneration
Double Team
Knock Off
Expendables 2
Double Impact
Universal Soldier 1
Assassination Games
Death Warrant
Replicant
Universal Soldier 2
Dragon Eyes (not sure this one really counts)
Six Bullets
Welcome to the Jungle (can’t really remember this one but remember having a few chuckles)
Timecop
Hard Target

I have JCVD on DVD but have not gotten around to watching it yet.

]]>By: Mr. Subtletyhttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3373827
Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:53:43 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373827THE ORDER is not in any way a good movie but it’s still worth a watch as the only movie where Van Damme does an extended action sequence dressed as an Orthodox Rabbi, and the only movie where Charleton Heston carries JCVD’s luggage.
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Fri, 07 Jul 2017 15:40:17 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373822Hallsy, we should put together the list of best to worst of Van Damme in our opinion.
]]>By: Sternsheinhttp://outlawvern.com/2017/07/06/new-thrillist-piece-15-great-american-action-movies/#comment-3373821
Fri, 07 Jul 2017 15:33:21 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373821Or that God awful train movie he made. Or Kill Em All which I even like.
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Fri, 07 Jul 2017 15:32:36 +0000http://outlawvern.com/?p=29495#comment-3373820Never saw THE ORDER.
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